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Meet the Innovators Behind iMagine Design LLC

Our founding team, led by CEO Kavan Hazeli and supported by a talented group of executives and advisors, brings together expertise in healthcare, technology, and business.

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Tamara Zderich
Administrator
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Kavan Hazeli
CEO, COO, and Advisory Board Member

Kavan Hazeli, CEO/COO of iMagine Design LLC, brings an impressive blend of academic prowess and practical engineering expertise to the forefront of elderly care technology. As an Associate Professor in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arizona, Hazeli has carved a niche in the engineering world with his extensive experience in materials design, system engineering, and manufacturing. His proficiency in additive manufacturing, the mechanics of materials, and composite materials positions him uniquely to lead our initiative. Under his leadership, the company is set to redefine the standards of elderly care through machine-learning solutions and engineering excellence.

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Bahram Jalali
Executive Chairman and Interim CFO

Bahram Jalali, the Executive Chairman and interim CFO at iMagine Design LLC, brings a distinguished background as UCLA’s Fang Lu Professor of Engineering and a renowned figure in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His expertise is marked by pioneering contributions to silicon photonics and significant advancements in imaging, sensing technologies, high-performance computing, and fiber optics. With over 300 peer-reviewed publications and 43 patents globally, Jalali is a celebrated inventor whose technologies have led to successful startups and groundbreaking innovations in various fields, including silicon-CMOS lightwave integrated circuits and ultra-fast imaging techniques. A member of the National Academy of Inventors and recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Optical Society’s R.W. Wood Prize and IEEE’s Aaron Kressel Award, Jalali’s illustrious career started at Bell Laboratories after completing his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University.

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Janet Roveda
CTO

Janet Roveda is a professor of Electrical and Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering. She is an expert in machine learning real-time wearable sensors data analysis and classification. She is the director of the Center to Stream Healthcare In Place (C2SHIP), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC), which engages academic and industrial partners in joint efforts that develop healthcare technologies for in-place care and accelerate innovation through multi-specialty collaborations.

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Bill Ryan
Advisory Board Member VP, Advanced Research, Commscope/Arris

Bill is the Senior Director, Product Line Management at CommScope. He also serves as the vice president of Advanced Research at Arris International. Bill has served as the principal product manager at Brocade Communications Systems for fifteen years. He also spent six years at Ruckus Network as the Product Manager Director.

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Xuejing Wang
Senior Programming Manager

Xuejing Wang is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona. She has a strong background in mechanics, statistics, and engineering applications of artificial intelligence. Her expertise lies in the interdisciplinary field of AI-assisted mechanical and biomedical engineering.

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